M-150 firecrackers?

I was down at the Lake of the Ozarks this weekend and on the way back we stopped for a bathroom break at a gas station/diner/firecracker store and they had M-150s. What exactly is an M-150? Is it more powerful than an M-80? Or are they just called M-150s because of a marketing ploy?

I was down at the Lake of the Ozarks this weekend and on the way back we stopped for a bathroom break at a gas station/diner/firecracker store and they had M-150s. What exactly is an M-150? Is it more powerful than an M-80? Or are they just called M-150s because of a marketing ploy?

I've got some of these. identical to some older ones I had labeled m-60s. Higher yield than your typical firecracker, but lower than a m80. still, decent for the price I got em.

I once had a 200ft role of M-100's. We set it off and ran, but it was surpisingly boring after a while. So we ran ahead of it and cut it off, then put it in a cardboard box with bottle rockets, helicopters, and anything else we could find and dumped gasoline on it.... let's just we ran for cover after a short while

Another fun thing to do is tie big helium balloons to party cups (the red ones) and drop a lit blockbuster in them. Floating explosives... fun. Stupid, but fun.

I used to have a slew of M-80s my dad got in Montana a few decades ago, and I was bummed to discover that they're actually just very fine sawdust inside, not gunpowder. What you REALLY want to get is something called a "flash salute" which is a small bit of blackpowder wrapped in paper. They're usually a bit longer than an M-80, a bit narrower, and have one red, one white, and one blue stripe.

I've got a box of M-1000s I picked up while in New Mexico. I can't compare them to M-80s, but they explode real nice. My brother and I lit one off under a coffee can with a can of paint on it yesterday.

im guessing that m-(whatever) the higher the # the more gunpowder. im not to sure but it seems to make sense. a few months ago i invested in about $100 in fireworks. i stopped into a phantom fireworks warehouse in breezewood PA. just past the MD. line. and it was a $50 minimum. and everything was buy one get one 99 cents. so i picked up alot of stuff. one of the things i got were M-88's. they pack quite a punch. weve blown up a few glass bottles.

Three seprate soda/pop cans. Drop one m-80 into the can and nothign happens. Drop one m-60 into the can and a small hole to nothing happens. Drop a blackcat into one and big hole+can going flying.

Not scientific but i haven't foudn the higher numbers to be more powerful. I think it is a ratio, so m-100 is 1/100th of a stick of TNT (my guess) so a m-60 would be 1/60th. Which is where you get the term quarter and half sticks.

A true, bonafide M-80 is a firecracker designed for military use as a "gunfire simulator." One specification calls for a tube that is 1.5 inches long, 9/16th of an inch in diameter, with a fuse coming out the side rather than the end, and containing 45 grains of a specific pyrotechnic composition. (A "grain" is a unit of weight measurement equal to 64.799 milligrams.) So a true M-80 contains about 2,916 milligrams, or just under 3 grams of a spedific type of pyrotechnic composition.

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The legitimate fireworks market today includes some "novelty" firecrackers called "M-60", "M-70", "M-88", "M-90" and so on. These are not M-80s, they are regular 50 milligram firecrackers made to look like M-80s or "Silver Salutes," another old type of firecracker now banned. These novelty firecrackers are legal to sell to the public, in states that allow firecrackers, because they [B]contain no more than 50 milligrams[B] of pyrotechnic content. They are nowhere near as poweful as a true M-80 or a true cherry bomb. The names used for these ("M-60", "M-70", "M-88", "M-90" and so on) are basically meaningless marketing gimmicks.

quote:Originally posted by The Cool Dude:what happens if you taped/glued a bunch together, and tied the fuses together so that they more or less went off at the same time???

Anybody try that?

I've never done that specifically, but I did wrap a flower in some duct tape one time, so instead of spinning and glowing, it just flat out exploded. Pretty big bang too! I've never been able to replicate it though.

My brother-in-law is a farmer, and has legit needs to do things like scaring off wildlife & such, so he gets some real M-80s from the U.S. Dept. of Wildlife. The M-60s/M-100s/Silver Salutes are nothing compared to these.

Put a real M-80 into a pop can and it'll get blown to shreds. When your local news channels try to guilt-trip you by showing sad stories about kids blowing their hands apart, these are the ones that do it. Yes, real M-80s are illegal by federal law.

I need to get some of this coming 4th of July. That or head down to Mexico and pick up something even more dangerous.

And I just read Q@Mi6's linkage. While legal firecrackers are only allowed to have 50mg of powder, true M-80s have almost 3,000mg of powder. That should give you an idea of how powerful these fuckers are.

I have some real 80s around here somewhere. They are both fun and loud- They will remove fingers.

I once made a "purchase" of about a hundred of them. They sell right now for 3-5 bucks a pop because they are getting harder and harder to find. Becuase I "know someone" I got just over a hundred for 70 bucks. I put 5 in my pocket, left the rest in a paper bag under the seat of the car. I went out a good couple hundred feet from the places where people were lighting off fireworks with a couple friends and lit one off as my friends did the same- It wasnt like I had never lit them off before but the giant flash bang and shockwave are enough to remember how much fun they really are and really get the testosterone flowing. Its like taking the rifle out to the range for the first time in a long time. It is VERY exhilarating. So I just *have* to light another. I light it up, go to chuck it and I hear "No, Will- Stop!!". Too late I chuck it. What do you think was behind me?? A fucking local cop. FUCK!!

So he gathers me and my friends around asks where we got em from (I say some other place) he asks for the rest of them I have so I hand him the 3 I have in my pocket. He asks everyone around if they have any too- everyone says "NO" and he proceeds to demand I produce ID- so I give it to him, he takes my name and address and says if he hears any more he going to send me a ticket. I say watch me, I am getting in the car and leaving right now.

My friends and I (and I am not sure but I think MR2DI4 another ars regular was there with us at the time) go down to the river which is a good 5 miles away and behind a locked gate on indian land where the cops wont bother to go, and we finished the 95 or so I had under the seat of the car off. It was great fun we blew all sorts of shit up.

About 3 weeks later, I go out and check the mail and what do I find- a subpoena with a court date and a charge of detonation of illegal explosives. So I go to court and basicly the DA says to take the deferment it will keep it off my record and otherwise the cop says he cant wait to take the stand and nail my ass to the wall. So by the time its all said and done I end up paying $550.00 out of my own pocket to cover my fuckup.

I am glad he didnt find the ones under the seat of the car becuase a quanity like that is a felony charge to the tune of Possesion of Illegal explosives with the intent to disribute.

Here a couple of pics of the Indan Reservation where this went down. Realize there are hundreds of these stands up there on both sides of the street. This is also about 1/4 mile from where I live right now and its right against the edge of the parking lot for the Muckleshoot Casino (If you live in the NW you have probably heard of this place).